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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoughCoronet0" data-source="post: 8569587" data-attributes="member: 7031665">The morality of necromancy and undeath in general was something I had thought about in regards to my homebrew world.On Salvera, souls are considered a sacred and protected resource due to the fact that the gods of my realms grow their power from drawing willing and faithful souls to their planes in the afterlife. All unclaimed souls go to the “Realm of Memories” to be purified and sent back to the mortal world in a cycle of life, death and reincarnation by the god of the cycle (and the unofficial over-deity of my world so he is the big boss) until that soul finds their final afterlife.So in regards to all of that, any form of necromancy or undead that fuels its powers or gains sustenance from corrupting, damaging, consuming or otherwise destroying souls are considered unequivocally evil because all mortal souls deserve the right to their afterlife (according to the god of the cycle). Those that practice this form of necromancy, and all undead created that feed on souls or destroy souls are hunted mercilessly.However, necromancy that taps into the negative and necrotic energies of places like the Shadowfell or the Negative Energy Plane and uses that to fuel their necromantic powers is seen in a better light respectively. Likewise, undead (particularly intelligent undead) that gain sustenance through either feeding of pure necrotic energy or feeding on living matter like blood or flesh don’t have to be wholly evil (though going around and killing people like a monster is still going to get said undead destroyed).Necromancy and undeath in general is still seen as not all that great in many places, especially due to some more recent history regarding a very crazy faction of people, but there are good undead and good practitioners of necromantic arts and several gods that accept such beings into there fold. The god of the cycle himself doesn’t hate intelligent undead either so long as the process of becoming undead or remaining undead is in the mortal’s control (if you hadn’t notice, consent is a big thing with this guy). So for example a vampire that willingly became a vampire, or who was accidentally turned but chose to remain a vampire is alright in his eyes.Just thought I’d share.</blockquote>

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